Colorado featured at DNC

11:31 PM,
Sep. 4, 2012

Written by

Ledyard King
Gannett Washington Bureau

Colorado played a starring role in the opening night of the Democratic National Convention.

Four representatives of the Centennial State - a Cabinet secretary, a member of Congress, a college student, and a young Republican woman - took to the podium Tuesday at the Time Warner Cable Arena to pitch the re-election of President Barack Obama for different reasons.

Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, praised the president for taking courageous and fair-minded stands advancing the cause of gay Americans and providing young undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship. ...